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VMware Fusion 12 Now Available With macOS Big Sur Support and More
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https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=fusion-player-personal
This page always leads me to the "Workspace One" registration
Same after I installed 12 and clicked on its "Geta free license"
This page always leads me to the "Workspace One" registration
Same after I installed 12 and clicked on its "Geta free license"
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This is an Intel (x86) release. They haven’t released anything for ARM.
There’s very significant issues for VMWare and Parallels once Apple moved to ARM.They won’t be able to do virtualisation as they do today. Either they will need to do emulation of x86 or they’ll need to pivot to something like a cloud hosted service and have that Windows compute happen via a remote OS instance. I honestly suspect cloud hosted OS and streaming for services like gaming will be where things go.
I spent hours googling for ideas on how to fix. My VMware.log is full of messages about being unable to load certain files and then that network error. I did download fusion 12 on a Catalina machine, copied the image over there, fired it up and it worked fine. So it's not my windows image.
Help anyone?
This only works on, and only supports Intel CPUs.
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This is a bug that Apple has to fix, unfortunately.
You get all the VMware bells & whistles, plus if I am working on a Dev VM locally, I can easily import it into my vCenter environment too, with 100% compatibility.
Free solutions are fine for a lot of people. But those running commercial environments or those who want the best hypervisor, only VMware will do.
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It's a 32-bit Windows limitation. Switch to a 64-bit version of Windows.
The first time ever I downloaded Windows 10 by mistake in a 32 bit version. Thank you
Do you mean to say that Player is somehow limited in terms of performance? The information and editions comparison on the site implies that that's not so...
Fusion Player and Fusion Pro are exactly the same application. The features you get are based on the serial number you enter, and performance between the two is identical.
Thank to the VMWare team, but it's so irritating to still have a VMWare account(which I did because of VMWare Fusion 8) to just get a serial number that's still needed for activation... for a free application. Its Windows counterpart, if you will, doesn't need to be registered like this.
Also, I can see that my comment is a repeat of what some in this thread are already talking about.. meh, its' The Internet - it's bound to repeat itself - like everything in life.
Also, I can see that my comment is a repeat of what some in this thread are already talking about.. meh, its' The Internet - it's bound to repeat itself - like everything in life.
Other solutions usually have better DirectX integration and better seemless mode. VBox is a bit of a clunker in some of those areas, and it also has the Fisher Price UI still.
I actually just posted on another thread where they were asking about version 12 the other day. I didn't realize macrumors had already made a public article available since I didn't see a push notification for one. Oh well, glad people know. I purchased my upgrade this morning. I always like to upgrade my apps before the OS, so everything is ready. So far, no issues. Running on a late 2015 27" iMac Catalina 10.15.6 (latest), with 32 GB Ram.
Trying to "Register" after I've logged-in, and I'm taken to a page that states:
Content Not Available
Dear user, the web content you have requested is not available.
Content Not Available
Dear user, the web content you have requested is not available.